Sentence examples for influential proposal from inspiring English sources

For example, the belief that God exists might be regarded as a disposition to answer "yes" to the question "Does God exist?" A particularly influential proposal of this sort was the Turing test for intelligence, originally developed by the British logician who first conceived of the modern computer, Alan Turing (1912 52).

Perhaps the most influential proposal is to adopt some general theory of reason-responsiveness or rational self-control.

Michael Bratman [1992] offers an influential proposal in a reductive vein that makes use of his planning conception of intentions.

Garber (1983) put forward the most influential proposal, but doubts have been raised that it might not be well-behaved (van Fraassen 1988; also see Niiniluoto 1983).

In the 1960s, psychologist Hans Eysenck made the influential proposal that extroverts were defined by having a chronically lower level of arousal.

A second influential proposal for dealing with the difficulties left pending by the information-theoretic approach and for showing that some non-mental things can exhibit intentionality has been Ruth Millikan's (1984 , 1993 2000, 2004) teleosemantic approach.

Another of the most influential proposals actually came from the heartland of euro bond opposition.

One of the most influential proposals within the Chinese leadership in the past few months was from Chen Qingtai, the deputy director of the Chinese cabinet's Development Research Center.

One of his influential proposals was that the acquisition device contains a set of procedures and inference rules for analyzing linguistic data, so-called operating principles.

Other influential proposals for principled limits to the law are also examined: for example, the suggestion that law must eschew certain kinds of otherwise valid moral reasons and that the law must be in some sense neutral.

Liberalism in punishment, it is true, has no canonical formulation; instead, it has been multiply ambiguous during its career of more three centuries, as scrutiny of Beccaria's influential proposals for reform at the zenith of the Enlightenment show (Beccaria 1764).